Volatile vs Fitful - What's the difference?
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(physics) evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.
(of a substance, informal) explosive.
(of a price etc) variable or erratic.
(of a person) quick to become angry or violent.
fickle.
temporary or ephemeral.
(of a situation) potentially violent.
(computing, of a variable) having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value.
(computing, of memory) whose content is lost when the computer is powered down
(obsolete) Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.
Irregular; unsteady; characterized by fits.
*1605 , Shakespeare, Macbeth ,
*1851 ,
*:The cabin lamp—taking long swings this way and that— was burning fitfully, and casting fitful shadows upon the old man’s bolted door [...]
*2012 , The Economist,
*:So fitful has Britain’s economy been that any good news is understandably snatched at.
Volatile is a related term of fitful.
As adjectives the difference between volatile and fitful
is that volatile is (physics) evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions while fitful is irregular; unsteady; characterized by fits.volatile
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* volatility * volatile memoryfitful
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Adjective
(en adjective)- His breathing was fitful .
- [...] Duncan is in his grave;
- After life's fitful fever he sleeps well;
The economy: Don’t say “green shoots”